Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

9.05.2009

a good day... there need to be more days like this

it was a good day...there need to be more days like this

thursday was a good daya slight tweak in the schedule and I get a completely different day

the standard morning routing is to get out of bed and try to reverse the morning zombie syndrome with coffeecoffee is always in the pot when I roll out of bed and stumble down the stairsI wake and try to wake the boys as Lisa finishes her morning pre work prepI sip coffee and scan FACEBOOK and BLOGGER to communicate electronically with the worldas the coffee slowly starts my brain Lisa swirls about the house like some tornado of efficiency

the boys try to steal another minute under the covers as we try to rally them out of bed so that they can be dressed, fed, and delivered to school on timeeight year old Dean tends to be far more agreeable than five year old Grantat times I think it would be easier to wake and dress a bear after winter hibernation than to get my five year old ready and out of the house in the morning

Lisa and the boys usually leave out the house for school and work while I step out the door to walk the dogthen after a standard short loop with the dog in the woods I throw my leg over the bike and rush into workdirectly into workno time for a pre-work work-out on the bikehardly time to slow and snap a photograph

on this day things are handled differentlysome days I alter my work schedule so that I work a late shiftthus allowing for a completely different daythis was one of those days

the actions of the morning are very much the samethe battle to get the boys out of bedthe effort to find something that their morning minds will feel is palatable for their mouths

on this day I get to play chauffeur the boyswith everyone dressed we exit the house with backpacks and lunchesas we hit the sidewalk our five year old neighbor Dylan joins us for the short car ride across Rock Creek Park to the DC Public School that educates our children

at drop off I get to interact with all sorts of familiar facesparents of children... children themselves... and the teachersit is good for me to get to see these faces that exist in my children's world so I can have an image to go with the stories of their days

with the kids in their classroom I drive home with my black dog brutus waiting patiently in the caron these days we usually hike a different loop... often a longer loopthe Melvin Hazen is often the logical loop on these days

with more time I often spend a minute or two making some repairs to the trailsor picking up some trashonce back I return the dogmaybe sip some more coffeemaybe have some more electronic communication with the worldalways realizing too late that I have foolishly sapped up time that could be used on the bike

on the bike with a little more time than the direct trajectory into work I point things north instead of southout of Mount Pleasant and onto Rock Creek Parkpushing the bike on the paved roads that border the woods where I hike my dogdepending on the time I either take Broad Branch to Bethesda or take Beach Drive past Candy Cane Cityeither way I link up with the Capital Crescent Trailone ride being slightly longer than the otherneither loop being that long... but something is better than nothing

I arrive at work after a little more than an hour on the bike at a pretty decent intensitymy fitness is low... my speed is slowtrying to get ready for cyclocross seasonI am trying to get in shape in two weeks while others have been building up fitness for months

at work I poke my head in and alert my boss that I have arrived but that I need to shower... this shower may be for others rather than myselfalthough it works for me as well... I need a shower and the shower feels gooddressed and refreshed I am ready to work

in the office I learn that I need to head to a remote site for some work that needs to be done at that locationBONUS! FIELD TRIP!I knock out some tasks at the office then march across town

as I move about the city I point the camera at passing cyclistsafter doing what must be done I meet up with Cargo Mike for lunch

the switch up to the day makes the day so much more enjoyablethis late guy switch up needs to become a semi-regular part of my weekit is far better than than the mad morning rush that I usually start my day with

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